1911
Architect, James Govan, working with a team of advisory psychiatrists, physicians and government officials, presented his design for the Whitby Hospital for the Insane. At the time the philosophy for psychiatric care was to create a separate world for clients.
Whitby Hospital, set atop the picturesque Whitby shoreline, would consist of 16 cottages, organized in two gender-segragated groupings, built along tree-lined avenues, each housing about 70 patients. The design also called for two large infirmaries, one each for male and female patients, a recreation hall, a tubercular and isolation hospital, a church and hall, greenhouses and a nursery, general stores and workshops, a surgical and pathological building, several kitchen and dining areas, several staff residences, a cold storage plant and an administration building.